San Marzano Sessantanni Primitivo di Manduria 2018

Ripe crunchy red forest fruits with notes of candied dark cherries. Rich and bold, with juicy tannins. The Sessantanni Primitivo di Manduria of Cantine San Marzano is one of the very great red wines of Puglia. Sessantanni Primitivo, the racy Italian red wine from Puglia, is vinified from the grapes of over 60-year-old vines. It delights with opulent fruit and wonderfully spicy nuances of cinnamon, cedar and vanilla. The Sessantanni Primitivo di Manduria from the Cantine San Marzano winery is an unforgettably intense red wine from Italy that delights with full body. Deep red in the glass, this red wine impresses with a multi-layered bouquet full of dried plums, stewed cherries, light tobacco, some anise and ripe wild berries. The grapes come from very old vineyards of head-trained bush vines at least sixty years old (5,000 per hectare) selected in the area of San Marzano and Sava. The soils are a finely textured residual red soil with a calcareous subsoil, sparse rocky outcrops and intense presence of iron oxides. Hand-harvested very ripe in the second half of September. The maceration takes place for 18 days on 80% of the mass and for 25 days on 20%, with native yeasts selected in the vineyard. Fermentation takes place at a controlled temperature of 24-26 °C. Aged In French and American oak barriques for 12 months.